The FIA is assured it has an choice to current to the World Motor Sport Council to enhance and “simplify” the World Rally Championship’s radical factors system for subsequent 12 months.
This 12 months’s all-new factors construction has proved a sizzling matter amongst opponents and followers due to its complexity and weighting that many really feel has devalued the general rally victory.
In 2024, factors have been cut up throughout Saturday and Sunday, with drivers capable of declare provisional factors for his or her total place on the finish of Saturday’s leg that are then banked in the event that they attain the tip of the rally.
A sliding scale of 18-15-13-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 is awarded to the highest 10 on the finish of Saturday, however solely to these crews who attain Sunday’s occasion end.
Along with this, Sundays provide up a separate factors allocation [7-6-5-4-3-2-1] to the highest seven quickest crews throughout Sunday’s phases on prime of the 5-4-3-2-1 system for the highest 5 instances on the rally-ending Energy Stage.
Whereas the brand new system was designed to enhance the motion on Sunday, and has been extremely efficient at creating pleasure, drivers and groups have been extremely vital of the factors weighting of the system that has been derided on a number of events.
The ire appears to stem from the truth that a rally winner can fairly simply depart the weekend with out scoring essentially the most factors. This occurred as soon as once more final weekend as Elfyn Evans, who completed second on the Central European Rally walked away with two extra factors than occasion winner Ott Tanak.
Elfyn Evans, Scott Martin, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT Toyota GR Yaris Rally1
Picture by: Toyota Racing
As beforehand reported the FIA has been evaluating 4 new proposals to make enhancements to the system for subsequent 12 months.
Talking eventually weekend’s Central European Rally the FIA has confirmed that it has a proposal that it’ll current to the World Motor Sport Council which may very well be in place for subsequent 12 months.
Autosport understands that the weighting of the factors to make sure the rally winner is rewarded extra is a part of the proposal.
“We have now completely different choices, we’ve got been speaking about this all season. Each two weeks we’ve got a sporting working teams and completely different choices are on the desk coming from the driving force’s consultant Scott [Martin] and from the producers and from the WRC Promoter.
“Lastly we predict we’ve got an choice to be introduced to the following fee that roughly all agree with,” mentioned FIA WRC class supervisor Marina Dunach.
“It would go to a vote on the World Motor Sport Council and possibly we may have a brand new factors system for subsequent 12 months.
“After trying on the completely different choices introduced we’ve got been testing with Excel information what would occur utilizing the completely different choices and considering what’s the greatest for the championship. All of us really feel roughly that that is extra honest, possibly.”
FIA street sport director Andrew Wheatley, added: “The important thing precedence for the [original] rule change was to attempt to be certain that we had much less of a dialogue about Sunday, it created different discussions which is regular, and now the proposal is to attempt to tweak to simplify it [the points system].”